On this day!!

• 1894 London taxi driver George Smith is the first to be fined for drunk driving
• 1977 Hamida Djandoubi, convicted of torture and murder, is the last person to be executed by Guillotine in France
• 1993 Israel & PLO sign joint recognition statements
• 2008 The Large Hadron Collider at CERN, described as the biggest scientific experiment in the history of mankind is powered up in Geneva, Switzerland.
•  This guy was President for a whopping 60 minutes
  Pedro José Domingo de la Calzada Manuel María Lascuráin Paredes was a Mexican politician who served as the 34th President of Mexico for less than one hour on February 19, 1913, the shortest presidency in the history of the world.
  At least he can add it to his CV?
  
  The one time the Liechenstein army made a friend
  During the Austro-Prussian War of 1868, the small sovereign state of Liechtenstein sent an army of 80 men into Italy for combat.
  Not only did all 80 men survive, they came across an Italian soldier who just went, "yo, you guys seem like cool dudes" and decided to return to Liechtenstein with them.
  So, the Liechtenstein army literally came home from battle with more men than they started with